The Devexpress folks apparently have a little competition once in a while to show that their software kicks ass. The last one (as stated in the video) was a guy with a keyboard and no Devexpress vs the guy with chopsticks and a keyboard, but using Devexpress. Cool! Now they step it up and they have a Guitar Hero controller to write code. Badass! flowplayer('devexpress-movie', { src: '/swf/flowplayer.swf', wmode: 'opqaue' }, { clip: { url: ...
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software development with some really amazing hairMy Tools of the Trade
Well I figured since everybody else is doing it, why not hop on the bandwagon. These are my tools of the trade: Hardware 2009 Apple MacBook Pro 13" running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I got this not too long ago, and it completed my operating system trilogy. Dell Inspiron 6400 running Ubuntu 9.04. My lifeblood in university and still a solid laptop. Custom Intel Core 2 Quad desktop w/ 8 GB DDR2 RAM and EVGA nVIDIA 295 GTX video card running Wi...
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10/GUI
Somebody needs to make this. I would be on this like white on rice. Some Javascript would be nice. 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
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Why the Github's really are better than the cvsdude's
There are a lot of hosted source control providers out there. Github, bitbucket, cvsdude, ProjectLocker, Codaset, SourceForge, Codeplex, Google Code, Beanstalk, and I could probably keep going until all 5 of you stopped reading my blog. Personally, I’m a Github kind of guy. From the looks of things, I would also enjoy Codaset or bitbucket. We use cvsdude at CodeBaby, and while it gets the job done, it’s not something I’d use otherwise. First, ...
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techradar needs to turn on their radar
A few things in a recent techradar post made my eye twitch a bit. Keyboard and mice Obviously they aren’t programmers. I have a hard time imagining that in only 10 years, programmers won’t be using keyboards. Desktop PC’s I like how the third sentence is a admittance that it won’t die, and yes it’s on the list. The upgradability and extendability of desktop PC’s is one big advantage they have over laptops. One thing I could see is where a lapt...
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What Do Programmers Really Do?
Indeed. What do we do? Well I was curious. WTF you might say. “You’re a programmer! Shouldn’t you know what you do?” Well yes, I know what I do. What I mean is what do programmers do while programming besides programming. I myself write the codes (duh) and hang out on Twitter and listen to podcasts, watch movies, listen to music, and sometimes I just concentrate so hard I forget to eat. I was curious to see what everybody else did while hackin...
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Web Syntax Highlighters
Anybody who blogs about programming related topics needs to post code at times. When I was on Wordpress, I used the WP-CodeBox plugin. It worked quite well, but it was server side. This is fine if you intend to stay with your software forever, but when I moved off Wordpress to my custom solution, it became a problem. syntaxhighlighter syntaxhighlighter is a fairly popular solution, and for good reason. It is entirely javascript based so there ...
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Blogging System Shootout
So I have this blog. You might have one, but odds are, we aren’t using the same system. Well, actually since I run my own system, there is probably no way in hell we are running the same system. Anyway. There are a few other systems out there, I’m thinking of moving my other blog off my own server, and want to do some other stuff, so naturally I want to find out about some of these other systems out there. I’m only doing hosted services, since...
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Get your Wordpress out of my Blogging Software
Hopefully you didn’t notice much, except the speed increase, but my blog is no longer on the behemoth that is Wordpress. While Wordpress served me well for quite some time on my other blog it always kind of bugged me. Well no more! I took a couple days (basically 2 full days and 2 evenings) and wrote my own little blogging engine from scratch. You can find it on github and get forking if you so choose. What I used: ruby and sinatra They are pr...
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Google Sets
Have you check out Google Sets? It’s great. I really don’t know how long it’s been around, but it’s pretty slick. If you were looking for server names, like in this serverfault question, you’ll realize the power of Google Sets. Go there, and try out a few things, like characters from Star Wars. Enter in Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Oh look, the rest of the cast, and even some obscure ones! So the next time you need a set of things, like for a ...
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